I'm in the market for some storage at the moment, as I try and move away from the monolithic big computers here in the office to the smaller, neater, and quieter, solutions available. Stories like this one:Three terabyte desktop network drive ships are therefore catching my eye.

3TB in a desktop (well network attached storage) sounds extravagant, but is it really?

Once you start to sit down and work it out, suddenly, 3TB seems small. Let's look at a typical home environment - if everybody ripped a fairly typical 250 CD collection at full rate that would be about 160GB of data. Add a few thousand photos and you could easily be over 500GB without even noticing. Add in some movies from your video camera and you can easily tip over the terabyte. With DV video at 3.6MB/s you get about 284 seconds/per GB, or 80 hours to the TB.